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@kevinushey kevinushey released this 30 Jul 16:56
· 4 commits to master since this release
  • Fixed a failure to install with toolchains that accept -std=c++20 but
    provide a pre-C++20 standard library, with errors of the form "no member
    named 'random_access_iterator' in namespace 'std'" from
    tbb/parallel_for_each.h. The bundled oneTBB selected its concepts-based
    iterator dispatch on a macro testing only the language standard, rather than
    the __TBB_CPP20_CONCEPTS_PRESENT used elsewhere in that same header. This
    affected RcppParallel's own compilation, as well as any package including
    the header; CRAN's macOS x86_64 machines, which pair Apple clang 14 with the
    macOS 11.3 SDK, are one such toolchain. (#268)

  • On Windows, RcppParallel now builds the bundled oneTBB as a shared library
    and links against it, shipping tbb.dll and tbbmalloc.dll alongside the
    package -- the same arrangement already used on every other platform.
    Previously it linked the static TBB provided by Rtools directly into
    RcppParallel.dll, which meant the TBB version (and ABI) depended on the
    user's toolchain, and left downstream packages with no TBB library to link
    against. Rtools42 in particular provides Intel TBB 2017, whose headers
    downstream packages cannot build against: StanHeaders uses
    tbb::this_task_arena::isolate, which that release still gates behind
    TBB_PREVIEW_TASK_ISOLATION and does not export from its library, so rstan
    could no longer be built on R 4.2 for Windows. Building TBB ourselves gives
    every platform the same oneTBB and makes the ABI a property of RcppParallel
    rather than of the toolchain. TBB_LIB / TBB_INC are still honoured for
    anyone supplying their own build. (#269, #274)

  • Building RcppParallel now requires cmake (>= 3.5) on all platforms, as
    SystemRequirements has always declared. Previously a missing or unusable
    cmake was fatal everywhere except Windows, where it instead produced a
    package with no TBB backend at all -- a silently degraded install that was
    easy to end up with and hard to notice. TBB is now always enabled. Rtools has
    shipped cmake since Rtools42, so this should not affect Windows users in
    practice. Note that the tinythread backend remains selectable at runtime via
    RCPP_PARALLEL_BACKEND=tinythread; it is only no longer a build outcome.
    (#275)

  • As a consequence, RcppParallel::RcppParallelLibs() now emits -ltbb and
    -ltbbmalloc on Windows, in addition to -lRcppParallel (which remains
    necessary there for the entry points RcppParallel compiles itself, such as
    isProcessForkedChild). Packages that previously resolved TBB symbols out of
    RcppParallel.dll, or the tbbmalloc API via -lRcppParallel alone, should
    rebuild against these flags.

  • The tbb.dll compatibility stub is gone. It existed to publish the
    pre-oneTBB task_scheduler_observer entry point on top of a statically
    linked runtime, but because it linked the TBB archives itself it amounted to
    a second, independent copy of the oneTBB scheduler living in the same
    process. That entry point is now exported by the real tbb.dll, as it
    already was by the shared libraries on other platforms, so binaries built
    against RcppParallel 5.1.11 and earlier continue to resolve it.

  • On macOS, RcppParallel::LdFlags() now also emits an -rpath entry for the
    directory containing the TBB libraries. The libraries record an
    @rpath-relative install name, so packages linking against them previously
    produced binaries with no runtime search path for TBB; those binaries could
    only be loaded when RcppParallel (and hence TBB) already happened to be
    loaded into the process, and failed with "Library not loaded:
    @rpath/libtbb.dylib" otherwise. (#209, #271)

  • Fixed RcppParallel::tbbLibraryPath() returning NULL on Windows, and
    tbbRoot() reporting a directory that need not exist on the machine running
    the package -- for a pre-built binary, the Rtools tree of the machine that
    built it. Both now describe the installation actually in use. (#270, #273)

  • Fixed an issue where building the bundled oneTBB could fail when CXX
    (or CC) was configured with a leading compiler launcher such as ccache
    (e.g. CXX = "ccache g++"). The launcher is now forwarded to cmake via
    CMAKE_<LANG>_COMPILER_LAUNCHER instead of being mistaken for the compiler
    itself. (#267)